Antisemitism in Elite College Admission: A Brief History

This talk will discuss the origins of Jewish quotas in Ivy League universities and their evolution until they were finally eliminated in the 1960s. It will conclude with a discussion of why Jewish enrollments have declined sharply over the course of the past half century at all of the Ivy League institutions.

Featuring: Jerome Karabel, University of California, Berkeley

Jerome Karabel is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of the award-winning The Chosen: A Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, among other books.

Cosponsors

This program was made possible by a grant from the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation.

Cosponsored by the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Klatt family and the Harry Stern Family Foundation.